Peekaboo
#e6dee6
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e6dee6
RGB
230, 222, 230
OKLCh
90.9% 0.014 325.7°
CIELAB (D50)
89.3, 3.9, -2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 34 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 17% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.6; on black, Lc -88.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 15.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.32:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.96:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.96:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#7c757c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e6dee6
protanopia
#dfdfe6 · ΔE00 3.9
deuteranopia
#e0e0e6 · ΔE00 4.1
tritanopia
#e2e2cd · ΔE00 15.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSelago at ΔE00 0.483: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SelagoΔE00 0.483 · #e6dfe7
- Bubble BathΔE00 0.626 · #e8e0e9
- Minified MagentaΔE00 0.647 · #e6dfe8
- Violet VogueΔE00 0.79 · #e9e1e8
- Orchid LaneΔE00 0.884 · #e5dde7
- Pale MuseΔE00 1.001 · #e4dde7
- Tiara JewelΔE00 1.022 · #eae0e8
- Diluted PinkΔE00 1.025 · #e9dfe8
- He Loves MeΔE00 1.187 · #e1dbe3
- Dainty FlowerΔE00 1.262 · #e9dfe5
- Dream DustΔE00 1.335 · #ebe2e8
- SpangleΔE00 1.346 · #e5dbe5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.